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Dollar General Literacy Foundation

The DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION's mission is serving others through basic education grants which positions persons for excellence.

$19M
Granted FY2026still arriving
564
Grants FY2026still arriving
45
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.

Education$87MHuman Services$13MPublic Benefit$12MInternational$11MArts & Culture$4.7MYouth Development$4.4MEmployment$1.8MReligion$1.5MOther$0
02FY2026 · 564 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 564 grants below total $14,481,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,652,731 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,171,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k169 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k369 grants · $4.4M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.7M
$10,000
Median grant
45
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$1,345,500
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE$1,301,428
THE AD COUNCIL$942,996
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC$870,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNI$580,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$500,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$434,000
PROLITERACY$400,000
UNITED THROUGH READING$350,000
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE$230,000
PENCIL FOUNDATION$200,000
COALITION ON ADULT BASIC EDUCATION$200,000
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION$200,000
NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSIOCIATION$200,000
NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL I$185,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–26, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YMCA: $20k → 13%THE FAMILY PLACE: $20k → 18%HAYTI HEIGHTS TRANSFORMATION INC: $18k → 30%UNITED WAYS OF TENNESSEE: $50k → 4%LEARNING ALLY INC: $602k → 11%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $100k → 8%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILI: $28k → 10%FERST READERS INC: $25k → 11%WATER FOR ISHMAEL: $20k → 18%LEARNING ALLY INC: $500k → 11%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY: $20k → 16%UNITED WAYS OF TENNESSEE: $50k → 4%UNITED WAYS OF TENNESSEE: $50k → 9%FERST READERS INC: $25k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $500k → 11%UNITED WAYS OF TENNESSEE: $30k → 9%FERST READERS INC: $20k → 11%WATER FOR ISHMAEL: $20k → 18%SERVING OUR NEIGHBORS MINISTRIES: $20k → 15%THE OASIS INSTITUTE: $100k → 11%CONEXION AMERICAS: $30k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%YMCA OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $175k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $50k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $50k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $50k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $50k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $37k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $25k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $25k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $25k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $21k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $21k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $20k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116M · 1262 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

1262 repeat relationships — 369 still active in FY2026, 893 since wound down; 176 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1262
558

Total granted

$116M
$9.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+8%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $11M · revenue +61%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    8× · 2019–2026 · $10M · revenue +18%
  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    10× · 2017–2026 · $6.3M · revenue +367%

Funded once

  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • SW
    SESAME WORKSHOP
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +6%
  • OH
    OPERATION HOPE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Literacy Council of Lanc-Leb Lva

Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life.

Education
2
Reading Results

Reading results partners with schools to support students from systemically excluded communities in becoming successful readers. we believe that literacy is a basic human right, and we work to increase access and break down barriers…

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3
Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County Inc

Empowering adults to achieve literacy and improve their quality of life.

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4
Literacy Council Gulf Coast Inc

The mission of lieracy council gulf coast is to build brighter futures by empowering adults, children and families to acquire english literacy skills and education to enhance their quality of life.

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5
Literacy Source a Community Learning Center

Literacy source provides accessible, high-quality foundational education for adults to create lasting opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Education
6
Legacy Center for Community Success

The Legacy Center (TLC) identifies outside-the-classroom barriers to learning and development. We collaborate with other organizations to provide interventions that allow all children, youth and families to flourish and thrive.

Education
7
Adult Literacy of Lawrence County

To promote non-traditional educational choices that promote lifelong learning for adult residents and their families who seek to improve their literacy skills in order to successfully realize their full potential as workers and family…

Education
8
Teton Literacy Center

The teton literacy center provides literacy services to children and families.

Education
9
Read Alliance Inc

Work to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities.

Education
10
Read to a Child Inc

Children's literacy & mentoring

Education
11
Bilingual Learning Center

The mission of bilingual learning center is to foster an enhanced learning environment through enriched programming in a dual inmmersion setting. blc will provide high queality after school enrichment.

Education
12
The Learning Commnunity Charter School Inc

This work fulfills our misson at the learning community, we believe that literacy empowers each individual to have a voice,assume community responsibility and take social action. we expect leadership at every level. we grow teachers,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Youth Mentoring ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Health Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Social ServicesYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterSchool District FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsChristian Youth CampsAffordable Housing Developm…Equine Therapy ProgramsYmca Youth DevelopmentSenior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…United Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%61/2,914
the rest of the field
13%
240,335/1,816,651

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

1130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1130 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

32
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
373
Early backer (in before they grew)
1050/1130
Grantees still filing
779/1130
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $6,302,702 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONPROLITERACY WORLDWIDE — $5,276,199 · EducationPROLITERACY WORLDWIDEREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $4,738,630 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INCAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $2,784,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC — $2,556,762 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INCDONORSCHOOSEORG — $2,550,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $2,334,305 · EducationAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $1,727,800 · EducationNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $1,562,500 · Education+51 more — $11,682,097 · Education+51 moreTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC — $10,828,266 · OtherTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INCYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $2,403,285 · OtherYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEETHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Other+93 more — $13,720,269 · Other+93 moreSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,295,500 · InternationalSave The Chi…+2 more — $161,500 · InternationalLearning Ally Inc — $1,612,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $1,575,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $461,900 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMERICAS — $321,000 · Human ServicesTHE OASIS INSTITUTE — $235,000 · Human Services+25 more — $2,487,300 · Human ServicesTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $3,554,265 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOP — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $507,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $348,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $311,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED THROUGH READING — $1,525,000 · Public BenefitMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $601,901 · ReligionPROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC — $339,000 · Religion
Education$41,514,995Other$27,951,820International$10,457,000Human Services$6,692,200Arts & Culture$5,970,265Public Benefit$1,525,000Religion$940,901

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC — $10,828,266 over 10y, 2.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,295,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $6,302,702 over 10y, 20% of budgetPROLITERACY WORLDWIDE — $5,276,199 over 10y, 7.5% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $4,738,630 over 10y, 5.4% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $3,554,265 over 8y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $2,784,000 over 10y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC — $2,556,762 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $2,550,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $2,403,285 over 10y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $2,334,305 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $1,727,800 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLearning Ally Inc — $1,612,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $1,575,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $1,562,500 over 10y, 30% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $1,525,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $1,235,000 over 10y, 4.1% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $1,086,077 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetNational AfterSchool Association Inc — $1,020,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $960,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION — $778,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $601,901 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $581,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $507,000 over 10y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD EDUCATION INC — $503,240 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $461,900 over 10y, 1.9% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $411,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $363,000 over 10y, 0.5% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $350,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $348,000 over 10y, 2.3% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC — $339,000 over 10y, 4.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $325,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS — $321,000 over 10y, 1.4% of budgetINSTRUCTION PARTNERS — $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVALUEUSA — $297,050 over 6y, 86% of budgetThe Institute for Educational Volunteer Programs — $285,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 10y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OASIS INSTITUTE — $235,000 over 10y, 0.5% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED — $232,000 over 10y, 15% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $229,808 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBook Em — $210,500 over 10y, 4.1% of budgetJobs for America's Graduates Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $199,250 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE INC — $196,560 over 2y, 8.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
  • Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds National AfterSchool Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Proliteracy WorldwideWish You Well Foundat…Memorial Foundation I…Joe C Davis FoundationNora Roberts Foundati…Scarlett Family Found…The Dan and Margaret …Boys & Girls Clubs of…The Frist FoundationEnchiridion FoundationRyman Hospitality Pro…Boys & Girls Clubs of…
Proliteracy WorldwideNY76.3× affinity69 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Proliteracy Worldwide · Wish You Well Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Scarlett Family Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · The Frist Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dollar General Literacy Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Commission On Adult Basic Education Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
84report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home